HomeHub questions re: Thomson FWs, pstn/voip dialplans, routing

[pepsi_max2k]

Hi, I'm hoping someone here has pretty good knowledge of the BT HomeHub (Thompson 7G) and could answer the following questions, as I'm trying to decide whether to get one now that Be* have stopped sending out the 780WL...

1. Simply, what's the functionality like compared to the Thomson Speedtouch 780WL? And I'm fine on flashing new firmwares if need be...

2. Using the phone socket on the Home Hub (NOT any of the DECT functionality) can I send / recieve both voip and pstn calls? Every other router I've seen do this has two input sockets; a filtered dsl and filtered pstn one. The HomeHub seemingly only has one DSL input and one Phone output (ignoring the hubphone / dect) so I'm not convinced it can do this.

3. Can I alter dial plans to change routing of calls placed through the phone socket via either voip or pstn? And I'm not talking just a "press 5" thing here, I mean prefix / fallback port / default port / min digits / max digits stuff.

4. Assuming it's flashed to a Thomson firmware, are there any major missing CLI commands compared to those of their 7XX series (cli manual here)? I specifically need the "voip stats list voiceport = BT" and "system settime" commands to function (helps with part 3).

5. Is it possible to set it to a (transparent) bridged or routed IP mode? or anything similar; I want to use it mostly as a dumb modem with no nat but keep voip functionality and telnet through ethernet...

6. I see there's a recently released v1.5 of the HomeHub out (see here). Any reason I should get one over the other? Especially functionality affecting any of the above.


Thanks, hope someone can help me out